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The New York Yankees relief pitcher is revered both for what he did and what he didn't do — behave scandalously, pick fights, take drugs or chase big contract offers to other cities.

Host Ari Shapiro talks with Patricia Freeman, a passenger on the Amtrak train that derailed today in Washington state, about what it was like to be on the train as it crashed.

"I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter," Gerwig says. Her new film tells the story of a teenager preparing to leave home for the first time.

Wendy Komac is a well-seasoned business woman who spent a career at Fortune 500 companies. Her current venture, though, hits closer to home. “I've got a decade of darkness that I'd prefer not to repeat or remember,” said Komac. “I sobered up when I was 27, and honestly I can remember my fifth day of detox like it was yesterday. So I know how painful and bad that is.”

Macer Gifford — an alias he uses to protect his family — left his job as a financial trader in London to fight ISIS in Syria. He lost much of what he had, but says he never regretted his decision.

Jerry Powers, who led the now-defunct Trump Magazine, talks about the magazine and working for Donald Trump.

Monday is leap day. We hear from people born on Feb. 29 about how they celebrate their birthday.

Team USA Track and Field Paralympian Lex Gillette tells NPR how he's staying competition ready now that the 2020 Olympic Games have been put off by a year.

In California, the Carr Fire is now fully contained but recovery has just begun. NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Kathleen Delikowski, who lost her home in Redding.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Donelan Andrews, a high school teacher in Georgia, who won $10,000 by reading the fine print of her insurance contract.